Bill Maher DID once admit the existence of fundamentalist Christians who bomb abortion clinics and who assassinate abortion doctors, Nazis and the KKK as well as right-wing militiamen. But he quickly adds that Islamist are worse because they want to "destroy America" while the white christian fascists don't. Imagine telling the family of Emmett Till of the families of the "four little girls". "Why yes the Klan murdered you family but they don't want to destroy America". The privileges of being rich and white in a first world country is you can afford to be oblivious to the real dangers fascists oppose to oppressed peoples. In fact fascists like the British National Party and English Defense League in Britain have cashed in anti-Muslim sentiment peddled by the likes of Bill Maher.
And of course both are big apologists for Israel genocide of the Palestinians. Sam Harris cynically states that Israel just wants to live in peace with it's neighbor. Yet fails miserably to explain the Apartheid wall, the continued settlement by fascistic Zionist militia in the West Bank, Gaze being and open air prison sealed off on all sides by Israel (and Egypt), how the Lukid openly deny Palestineans right to state-hood and self-determination along with Lukid advocating "free settlement" of Jews everywhere from the Arab sea to the Jordan river, how Israel was built on the displacement and killing of Palestinians along with how Israel regularly deliberately murders Palestinian children (roughly one child every three days). Sam Harris compares the Palestinians to Nazis but conveniently ignores the fact that Palestine is oppressed and that Israel is the oppressor. Also, it is well documented that the Zionist were making deals with the Nazis during the early stages of the Nazi era. But we mustn't let facts get in the way of Sam Harris's Pro-Israel narrative.
Bill Maher on his show cynically states that, "yes the Palestinians were displaced" but that "displacements are a fact of life so move on". So in other words anything Palestinians do is justification for killing any Palestinian in sight but if Palestinians are killed and displaced they should "move on". One of his guests, that episode, Jamie Weinstein, continuously referred to the Palestinian refuge camps as a "propaganda tool" is a lot like when Nazis call the holocaust "Jewish propaganda" (Ironically Jamie Weinstein is a big apologist for the Euromaidan movement, and two of the main parties spearheading that movement are the fascist neo-nazi parties that firebomb synagogues and murders leftists). There was another woman, Jane Harman, who stated that Israel "withdrew from Gaza", conveniently leaving out the fact that Gaza is a open aired prison sealed on all sides by Israel (and Egypt) and that Israel's "withdrawal" merely gave Israel a freer hand to attack the Palestinians. She also cynically claimed that Arabs have "equal citizenship rights" in Israel, conveniently leaving out the fact that they must pledge their allegiance to Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state", that Jews who have never been to Israel get immediate citizenship rights upon going there while Palestinians who have lived their entire lives don't have such rights and that Jews get special treatment in housing, land ownership, education employment and most other areas of life.
It certainly indisputable that Israel is a brutally repressive genocidal Jewish chauvinist regime. If the Israeli military and/or fascistic Israeli settlers in the West Bank are attacked by Hamas or any other Palestinian forces or there is a conflict between the Israeli military and/or fascistic military settlers on one side and Hamas, it is the duty of revolutionaries to give Hamas and the Palestinians military defense. This being said, Hamas deserves no political support (there misogyny, homophobia, anti-communism and anti-secularism must be opposed as well). Although attacks on Israeli solders and on fascistic settlers should be defended, Hamas also attacks Israeli civilians. The latter should be opposed as it will only drive these people, including Israeli worker's into the hands of the Zionist capitalist ruling class.
Unlike the ruling class of Israel, Israeli workers derive no real material benefit from Israel's oppression. In fact the ruling class of Israel brutally exploits of Israeli workers. For example, in order to pay for murdering Palestinians and further annexing Palestinian territories, they gut public services that Israeli worker's rely on. Hamas has no intention of working with Israeli worker's precisely because they right them off as the enemy and draw an equals signs between Israeli worker's and Israeli capitalists. Although Israeli workers may share their rulers hatred for Palestinians, it is actually against their interests to have such sentiment.
As long as the struggle is against Israel against Palestinians, Israel will win out as they are vastly superior militarily. What is needed is an revolutionary Leninist-Trotskyist worker's party to mobilize the Israeli working class side by side with the Palestinian working class to smash the Zionist fortress. To do this Israeli workers must be broken with Zionism, anti-Arab bigotry and won over to the need to champion the national rights of the Palestinians. Palestinian workers must be broken from Antisemitism and Arab nationalism.
Not only should the Zionists rulers be toppled but there need to be worker's revolution to topple the various ruling classes throughout the middle east (many who also have a hand in oppressing Palestinian) to establish a socialist federation of the middle east.
Sources:
http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no26/no26meast.html Not Jew Against Arab, But Class Against Class! Defend the Palestinians!
http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no33/ibt_1917_33_02_boycott_divestment_sanctions.html On the ‘Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions’ Campaign: Strategies for Palestinian Liberation
http://bolshevik.org/statements/szhc_20140924_zim_shanghai_call.html End the Siege of Gaza! Picket the Zim Shanghai Starting September 27 at the Port of Oakland! Call from the Stop ZIM Action Committee
http://www.bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20140912_labor_action_gaza.html Down with Zionist Terrorism! Defend the Palestinians! For International Labor Action against Israeli Apartheid!
http://www.bolshevik.org/1917/no6/no06sanc.html Workers Sanctions & Capitalist Sanctions: ‘Fire and Water'
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/19/18760302.php Israeli Ship Continues to be Successfully Blocked at the Port of Oakland
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/26/18760701.php United States Port Actions End Business as Usual For Israel
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/08/18/18760208.php Facebook: Protest For Gaza Censored and Steven Argue Blocked From Posting
http://www.internationalist.org/defendgaza1407.html Defeat Israel / U.S. War – For Workers Action Against Zionist Slaughter Defend Gaza and the Palestinian People – For Arab-Hebrew Workers Revolution!
http://www.free-tv-video-online.me/internet/real_time_with_bill_maher/season_12.html Real Time with Bill Maher - Season 12 - 18 July 2014 - George Takai, Jamie Weinstein, Jane Harman, Nate Silver & Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
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